[Orice Williams Brown, managing director of financial markets and community investment for the GAO] is scheduled to speak tomorrow before a U.S. House subcommittee during a hearing focused on auditing the Fed.

China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan last month proposed to the United Nations a global code of conduct embodying among others the principle that "policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign right of states."

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India, Brazil and South Africa have also proposed setting up a new UN body to form global Internet policies -- frustrated that their growing economic power is not reflected in the multiple bodies that together keep the Internet running.

Aside from provincial rivalries, there is competition between the Islamist-run Tripoli Military Council, which has nominal control over the whole city and is believed to be backed by [>] Qatar, and formations loyal to the interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, a Western-trained technocrat.

[Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan] said that the president is an elected head of state and criticizing him tantamounts to criticizing the Parliament. The minister further said that it was the beauty of the democratic system that political leaders were criticizing an elected president.

It is also beauty of the democratic system that a president surrendered his powers to the Parliament and later federation transferred its powers to the provinces through 18th Amendment.

...AND NOW THE BELIEVABLE PART

“It is regrettable that Mian [Nawaz Sharif, leader of PML-N]...just after the APC[,] held...[his] press conference and shattered the [>] myth of unity created by APC”